Crossing the border with Blue Jays beat reporter Jordan Bastian.

Game #161: Rays at Jays pregame

Parting is such sweet sorrow:I wasn’t there to witness this scene firsthand, but when my MLB.com associate arrived to the ballpark this morning, soon-to-be-dismissed hitting coach Mickey Brantley was also entering the Dome. As Brantley was walking up to the door with his bike in tow, a crowd of fans swarmed around him and offered their support. Cries of "We love you Mick!" and "You still have friends here!" and "You got a raw deal!" could be heard from the crowd of die-hards. Can you feel the love?

NOTES: CoachGate may never end. In hardly a shocking development, the announcement that was supposed to arrive on Saturday never did. Blue Jays general manager J.P. Ricciardi said he still had to "iron out" some things with some of the coaches, and he expects to have an announcement about the changes on Sunday. The likely holdup is with Ernie Whitt, who is going to be replaced as the bench coach next year by Brian Butterfield. Whitt has been asked to accept a lesser role, which he doesn’t appear to be too thrilled about. It’s possible that he opts not to take the new job. … Toronto’s two first-round picks from this year’s draft — Kevin Ahrens and J.P. Arencibia — were on hand at the Rogers Centre to take batting practice.

Don’t worry garryguy. As much as I think the Bosox have a great club, there won’t be much to say after the Angels get done with them.If the Jays stay away from the injury bug,They should be there next season.

I don’t think they’ll need a miracle. I watched Wisconsin play last Sat. night vs Iowa and I was not impressed at all. Wisconsin also escaped out in Vegas a couple of weeks ago.

I think the Spartans could win, I just think that the home field advantage will be the difference. The top tier teams in the Big 10 don’t have the offensive punch as they have had in the past. So a middle of the pack team like the Spartans could pull off a upset against one of those teams. Wisconsin is very well coached and they don’t beat themselves as you know.

You said the other day, Whitt wants to distance himself from Gibbons. Whitt doesn’t want to take away from the players and announce what he is going to do. Whitt will make the descion when the season is over. When the timing is right.

We’re talking about baseball. Come back please. I don’t want to call the mounties on you and try to find you.

ROFLMAO

Just kidding!!!

The Jays will finish the season with a winning record. They should be proud of that. With all in the injuires they had. I’ve seen many teams just pack it in but the Jays didn’t. Gibbons should be given some credit!!!

The guy that hits Halliday the most is Manny. But, I think you guys won the series between us this year from timing more than anything. Most of the time we faced you pre-all star break we had our 4th and 5th guys going-and those guys were Okha, Zambrano etc. We faired quite well after the All star break.

To say Rollins doesn’t have a chance, you are missing the boat on this one gsumner.

He has been the glue on the Phillies all year long. Howard got off to a bad start and Utley got hurt and missed a month or so. Rollins has been there all year and has held his team together. He also plays a very important position, which goes a long way.

Remember Garry, I told you sooner or later the pitchers would adjust to him, relaizing he could now hit that high outside pitch and start coming back inside again. And as soon as they did he’d start pounding it.

They didn’t bunt and you wanted them to during a co- ed softball game? Come on now tell the truth!!!

What did you think of the bunt by Mora last night?

I say he bunted because of all his kids. He didn’t want to listen to his wife about how the kids have been acting up and he is having fun playing baseball while she has to deal with all the kids!!! LOL…

BOSOS YOU ARE AN IGNORANT A,SS so far indigo is the only girl/lady on this site all you do is insult her,it’s not her fault your *** because your ex wife/man left you and took you for everything you had,Your lucky I don’t know where you live because I would punch you in the mouth creep.

WHY DO THE REST OF YOU SIT BACK AND LET THIS GUY/THING INSULT ONE OF OUR BLOGERS?????????????????.

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